The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 521: Go to Cayman to pick up the robot! (ask for monthly ticket)

The President of the United States has rarely been online.

He couldn't control his own age in the virtual world, and in order to avoid greater nervous stress, he had no choice but to simply not go online.

In the past half month, he began to reappear in front of the camera and attend various events.

But activity is significantly lower than in the past.

Despite this, the ban he announced on social media "banning US robotics companies from participating in [the humanoid robot competition]" was still issued the next day.

A large amount of evidence of the connection between Zhumeng and the Xia country’s military was also released - mainly news released by the Xia country’s official media, and some pictures that can be found on the Internet.

This is not hard to find at all.

The Army started cooperating with DreamWorks very early on, not only using the somatosensory synchronization suit to explore new intelligent exercise systems, but also having a sensory data sharing agreement with DreamWorks.

At a public press conference, some American reporters asked Xia officials how they viewed the President's ban.

The answer he got was:
Dream Building Game Company is an excellent private enterprise in Xia Country and can independently decide how to operate the company.

Under the premise of legality and compliance, they have the right to freely choose their partners.

If the US military is sincere, it can also reach cooperation with Dream Building Game Company.

We have never interfered with the cooperation between the US Remington Arms Company and Dream Building Games, nor have we mentioned the large-scale entry of large numbers of US soldiers into the virtual world.

Question marks popped up one after another in the reporter's head:

"Can this be the same?"

"We are cooperating with Dream Building? Aren't there enough intelligence leaks?"

"How do you know the dynamics of our soldiers?"

The reporter sent this Q&A back to China.

The media and politicians were in uproar.

But American netizens were dismissive.

The large companies that have cooperated with Zhumeng also don't take it seriously at all.

Those who should play games play games, and those who should tinker with robots tinker with robots.

As for the so-called ban...

In this era of globalization, there are plenty of ways to circumvent it as long as you are shameless and not afraid of retaliation afterwards.

For example, at this moment, Ethernet technology and edge industries are at the starting point.

They are not actually real [Ether Technology] and [Fringe Industry].

Instead, they are two startups registered in the Cayman Islands with only a dozen people in the entire company.

While walking on the beach in the Cayman Islands, they accidentally picked up two advanced humanoid robots and their accompanying maintenance and repair tools.

It just so happens that they are both engineers.

They are all engineers specializing in robot research and development.

What’s even more coincidental is that the US President issued a ban prohibiting Ethereum technology and fringe industries from participating in the dream-building competition.

So they were so bold as to pretend to be Ether Technology and Edge Industries to participate in the competition.

The US's Ether Technology and Edge Industries, because they are optimistic about these talents, not only do they not intend to sue them, but also extend an olive branch to them.

They are welcome to join Ether Technology and Edge Industries after the competition.

……

That's the story.

Anyway, Xu Meng believed it.

After all, this is not surprising at all—

In addition to them, there are 5 other participating teams on the scene, who also came here to participate for similar reasons.

If there were only one or two, that would probably be bullshit.

But there are already 7 of them!

This only goes to show that it is indeed easy to pick up robots and accompanying instructions on the beaches of the Cayman Islands!

……

Under the surprised eyes of the media reporters, the six robots were debugged, and they left the starting point and entered the confrontation area holding the simulated firearms provided by Dream Building.

The confrontation area is 20 meters long and wide, which is not very big.

The obstacles are not complicated either - go through the corridor at the starting point, turn two corners, and you can see your opponent through the courtyard in the middle.

Compared with the map of [Treasure Hunt in Dragon Palace], it is extremely simple.

This can't be helped—

In the first round of confrontation, there were too many weak robots. It was good enough that they could walk steadily on flat ground. If they really created a height difference for a three-dimensional confrontation, the scene would probably be very ugly.

Even if the situation had been greatly simplified, with the six robots fighting each other on flat ground, the battle wouldn't be very exciting.

The three robots that fell down at the start and were rescued by engineers looked very similar, with silver-white stainless steel bodies and round heads.

When we left the starting point, everything looked pretty much the same.

I walked smoothly along the four-meter-long corridor, walking, turning, and jogging, all very steadily.

But when the opponent really appeared, his true colors were immediately revealed——

After they raised their arms, the guns in the hands of two robots fell directly to the ground!
Another raised his gun but did not aim at his opponent or fire.

Just raised the gun.

As a result, he was shot with more than 30 bullets by the Ether Technology robot and was eliminated on the spot.

As for the two robots that dropped their guns, they were even more unbearable to watch—

They just stood there, looking at the guns at their feet, as if they wanted to pick them up but were unable to do so.

He just stood there in a daze until his opponent came around and beat him to death.

Fortunately, the remaining three robots performed quite well, which prevented the first game from becoming a complete joke.

Ether Technology is an old-established robotics company with ample funds and strong technical background.

This competition also gave Xu Meng face by sending out the latest generation of achievements.

The completely black and slightly shorter robot can run and turn flexibly in the narrow corridor, identify opponents and shoot targets.

Even a bird that suddenly flew past in front of him was successfully captured and a volley of bullets was fired at it.

Edge Industries started a little later, but with sufficient investment and an extremely focused engineering team, its performance is only slightly inferior to that of Ethereum Technology.

The last one is from a Xiaguo company called [Dark Light]. The smoothness of the robots’ movements is average and their movement speed is not fast.

But the algorithm is very innovative - it never confronts the opponent head-on, but instead moves around the field, looking for the opponent's back to attack.

In the end, he actually managed to get behind the edge industrial robot and pushed it down!
Yes, it was not shot with a gun, but pushed with hands.

After the Edge Industries robot determined that it was not shot, it used its hands and feet to try to get up and continue fighting.

But every time he got halfway up, he was pushed down again by the dark-light robot.

The robot did not feel humiliated and continued to get up again and again and was pushed down again and again.

However, the engineers in the marginal industries were extremely angry and felt that their counterparts in Xia Country were simply being humiliating!
After a quick discussion, seeing that they were powerless to save the situation, they cut off the robot's power supply on the spot, ending its meaningless struggle.

In this way, Dark Light and Ether Technology successfully won their first victory.

However, according to Xu Meng's rules, marginal industries that performed well also successfully advanced.

The whole game progressed extremely quickly. Excluding the preliminary preparations and debugging, the actual confrontation lasted only 15 minutes.

The same was true for the following games, which were often completed in more than 10 minutes.

The online and offline audiences found out as they watched:
Robots from many companies have encountered major setbacks at the "holding the gun" step.

Either I can't hold it steadily at all, or it falls as soon as I move, and I can never pick it up again.

As more and more companies like this emerge, people begin to notice that the robots of these companies seem to look a bit similar.

Although the paint and shell material are not exactly the same, the overall shape, proportions, gait, and even defects are highly consistent.

No one understands why this is happening.

Until the start of the fifth group of duels, the robot from Zhihui Technology, which is quite famous in China, held a gun in one hand and raised a red button in the other hand to signal to the camera.

The director cut the camera over and displayed it in the live broadcast room and on the large holographic screen at the scene.

When the audience was wondering what this secret weapon was, Zhihui's robot had already pressed the button.

Nothing happened on the big screen.

But in the opponent's lineup, a Xia robot, two Baekje robots and a German robot lost control at the same time!

Go straight to the only British robot that has not lost control!

Three engineers from the British company Mellen Robotics were horrified and looked in shock at the "friendly" company not far away.

The director also reacted and quickly cut the camera over.

The audience just happened to see the British robots being surrounded and beaten by the robots from Xia, Baekje and Germany.

——No guns were used, just hand-to-hand combat using only arms and legs!

The British robot had apparently been lightweighted to suit gunfights, and was shattered into pieces by the barrage of punches.

The circuit boards are exposed!

The audience then realized what was happening:
"Zhihui hacked the opponent's robot?"

"Fuck, is this even possible? Isn't this against the rules of the game?"

"That makes sense! We are already in the future of war, it would be unreasonable if there is no information warfare!"

"As expected, they are the development team with the youngest average age in the country! They are fucking geniuses!"

(End of this chapter)